[Mapbender-dev] motion: change attribute "extent" of map

[Peter Freimuth]

On Tuesday 02 June 2009 18:32:42 Michael Schulz wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> I second this motion and vote +1.
> 
> Cheers, Michael
> 
> 
> 2009/6/2 Astrid Emde <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com>:
> > Christoph Baudson schrieb:
> >>
> >> Currently, this is a string containing four comma-separated coordinates.
> >> This is hard to use, whenever you want to perform an operation on the
> >> extent, you have to split the string and use parseFloat. There is also no
> >> way to register an event with the setting of the extent, because it's not a
> >> function.
> >>
> >> At the development sprint in Hannover Peter and I discussed the
> >> implementation of a restricted extent. For this, we concluded, using the
> >> Extent object as attribute (and no longer the string) would be necessary. I
> >> am changing this in trunk, if this motion passes. The changes would include
> >>
> >> (1) The extent attribute is currently *set* by
> >>
> >> map.extent = "a,b,c,d";
> >>
> >> The new version would use this syntax
> >>
> >> map.extent = new Extent(a,b,c,d);
> >>
> >>
> >> (2) The extent attribute is currently *read* by
> >>
> >> map.extent
> >>
> >> which is a string "a,b,c,d". The new version would use this syntax
> >>
> >> map.extent.toString();
> >>
> >> and return the same string "a,b,c,d".
> >>
> >>
> >> All custom modules would have to use these changes as well, which will be
> >> important when updating. I'll only change the modules in Mapbender trunk.
> >>
> >> Please second this motion and vote.
> >>
> >> Christoph
> >>
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > this idea sound good.
> >
> > +1 from  me
> >
> > Astrid
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> >
> 
> 
> 

another +1
peter

ps: sorry for not taking the action on pushing the restricted extend forward

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